BACKGROUND The association between gynecological diagnoses and their distribution in the health sectors provides benefits in the field of women's health promotion and in medical and interdisciplinary education, along with rationalization according to level of care complexity. Thus, the objective is analyze the clinical-demographic characteristics, main diagnoses in gynecological ambulatory care...

Thin planar polymer films are model systems in a number of fields, including nanoand biotechnology. In contrast to reciprocal space techniques such as reflectivity or diffraction, secondary ion mass spectrometry SIMS can provide depth profiles of tracer labeled polymers in real space directly with sufficient depth resolution to characterize many important aspects in these systems. Yet, continue...

BACKGROUND Field surveys conducted in China before the implementation of the essential medicine policy showed that Chinese individuals faced less access to essential medicines. This paper aims to evaluate the availability, prices and affordability of essential medicines in Jiangsu Province, China after the implementation of the policy in 2009. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in...

This thesis studies the effects of latent sector faults on reliability, performance, and combined performability of disk arrays. This is done by developing two novel reliability models that include two fault types: disk unit faults and sector faults. The new reliability models study both hot swap and hot spare approaches in repairing disk unit faults. A traditional analytical method and also a ...

In credit risk modelling, the correlation of unobservable asset returns is a crucial component for the measurement of portfolio risk. In this paper, we estimate asset correlations from monthly time series of Moody’s KMV asset values for around 2,000 European firms from 1996 to 2004. We compare correlation and value-atrisk (VaR) estimates in a one–factor or market model and a multi-factor or sec...

The structure of developed economies has changed radically in recent decades. As late as the 1960s, it was reasonable to describe the economy in terms of three stages of production: primary production—of agricultural and mineral raw materials; secondary production—a manufacturing industry that transformed raw materials into items of final consumption; tertiary production—a sector that provided ...

OBJECTIVE Reverse triage means that patients who are not considered to be in need of medical services are not placed on the doctor's list in an emergency department (ED) but are sent, after face-to-face evaluation by a triage nurse, to a more appropriate health care unit. It is not known how an abrupt application of such reverse triage in a combined primary care ED alters the demand for doctors...

A medical superintendent of a secondary public sector hospital in Cape Town, who declined to be named, labelled the business set-up ‘limited private practice in a different guise,’ and said it was ethically inappropriate. ‘I would distinguish between ethical conduct and the letter of the law. If you’re discussing ethics, surely the primary obligation is to serve the poor?’ He said universities ...

This paper analyzes the effect of imitation on the rate of technological progress in an endogenous growth model. Quality leaders protect themselves from imitation by secondary development, which increases technological progress. Nevertheless, lower intellectual property rights protection reduces the incentives to enter the research sector, which lowers innovation by outsiders. Simulations show ...

We have created a database to analyze digital data to find connections between two or more different secondary storage devices. We used MongoDB and created a document for each secondary-storage image and each unique sector. Ingesting the secondary-storage images took so much time that we had to carefully consider all the reasons for the slow down and experiment on different ways to insert the d...